MUSEUM HALL CHANGE
Space For Flight ’ Exhibition The Canterbury Museum’s hall of transport has been repainted and will be rearranged to permit special exhibits. The Director (Dr. R. S. Duff) reported to the board that after the school holidays the whaling trypots and their brick housing would be reerected in the garden court, which has the whale skelton nearby. Models of southern whales would also be moved. Afterwards the whole east
■end of the hall would be re- ; organised, but the temporary /clearing would be used to ( . stage the big loan exhibition of models illustrating man’s /development of flight offered i by Qantas Airways. I Dr. Duff said the Qantas . exhibit was so popular that its North Island showings . had delayed the Canterbury I show. With a tentative open- > ing in July, nearly every school in Christchurch had i booked to inspect iL Public ! interest was expected to be (as great
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30448, 23 May 1964, Page 18
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